Epidemiology and in vitro susceptibility of drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae

Antimicrobial Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae: An Overview

1992 • 892 citations

Pneumococcal resistance to antibiotics

1990 • 820 citations

Resistance to Penicillin and Cephalosporin and Mortality from Severe Pneumococcal Pneumonia in Barcelona, Spain

1995 • 785 citations

Emergence of Multiply Resistant Pneumococci

1978 • 643 citations

Management of Infections Caused by Antibiotic-Resistant Streptococcus Pneumoniae

1994 • 579 citations

Emergence of Drug-Resistant Pneumococcal Infections in the United States

1994 • 556 citations

The Prevalence of Drug-ResistantStreptococcus pneumoniaeIn Atlanta

1995 • 519 citations

A RESISTANT PNEUMOCOCCUS

1967 • 508 citations

Antimicrobial resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae recovered from outpatients in the United States during the winter months of 1994 to 1995: results of a 30-center national surveillance study

1996 • 493 citations

Intercontinental Spread of a Multiresistant Clone of Serotype 23F Streptococcus pneumoniae

1991 • 424 citations

Evidence for the Introduction of a Multiresistant Clone of Serotype 6B Streptococcus pneumoniae from Spain to Iceland in the Late 1980s

1993 • 326 citations

Antimicrobial resistance among respiratory isolates of Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis, and Streptococcus pneumoniae in the United States

1990 • 308 citations

Serotype Distribution and Antimicrobial Resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates Causing Systematic Infections in Spain, 1979-1989

1990 • 292 citations

Antimicrobial Resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae in the United States, 1979-1987

1991 • 269 citations

Penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in acute otitis media

1995 • 266 citations

Cephalosporin treatment failure in penicillin- and cephalosporin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis.

1992 • 260 citations

Ceftriaxone failure in meningitis caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae with reduced susceptibility to beta-lactam antibiotics.

1991 • 227 citations

A review of antibiotic resistance patterns of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Europe

1991 • 208 citations

Increased Resistance to Penicillin of Pneumococci Isolated from Man

1971 • 180 citations

Analysis of multiply antimicrobial-resistant isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae from the United States

1992 • 178 citations

Randomized comparison of meropenem with cefotaxime for treatment of bacterial meningitis. Meropenem Meningitis Study Group

1995 • 172 citations

New Aspects of Antimicrobial Resistance and the Resulting Therapeutic Dilemmas

1991 • 169 citations

Treatment and Diagnosis of Infections Caused by Drug-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae

1992 • 167 citations

Decreased susceptibility of penicillin-resistant pnenmococci to twenty-four βlactam antibiotics

1992 • 162 citations

CEFTRIANONE FAILURE IN MENINGITIS CAUSED BY STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE WITH REDUCED SUSCEPTIBILITY TO BETA-ACTAM ANTIBIOTICS

1991 • 157 citations

Penicillin-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae Strains Recovered in Houston: Identification and Molecular Characterization of Multiple Clones

1993 • 149 citations

Relapsing pneumococcal meningitis: Isolation of an organism with decreased susceptibility to penicillin G

1974 • 141 citations

Detection of penicillin and extended-spectrum cephalosporin resistance among Streptococcus pneumoniae clinical isolates by use of the E test

1994 • 136 citations

Pneumococcal Antimicrobial Resistance: The Problem in Hungary

1992 • 125 citations

Activity of oral antibiotics in middle ear and sinus infections caused by penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae

1994 • 108 citations

High Incidence of Resistance to Multiple Antimicrobials in Clinical Isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae from a University Hospital in Korea

1995 • 107 citations

Emergence of drug-resistant pneumococcal infections in the United States

1994 • 107 citations

Susceptibilities of 177 penicillin-susceptible and -resistant pneumococci to FK 037, cefpirome, cefepime, ceftriaxone, cefotaxime, ceftazidime, imipenem, biapenem, meropenem, and vancomycin

1994 • 80 citations

Antibiotic-resistant pneumococci

1995 • 79 citations

Antibiotic resistance and serotypes of 100 Streptococcus pneumoniae strains isolated in a children's hospital in Barcelona, Spain

1985 • 76 citations

Susceptibility of 170 penicillin-susceptible and penicillin-resistant pneumococci to six oral cephalosporins, four quinolones, desacetylcefotaxime, Ro 23-9424 and RP 67829

1993 • 69 citations

Antimicrobial Resistance and Type Distribution of Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates Causing Systemic Infections in Germany, 1992-1994

1995 • 68 citations

Clinical and Nasopharyngeal Isolates of Unusual Multiply Resistant Pneumococci

1986 • 68 citations

Emergence of multiple-antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in Hong Kong

1995 • 65 citations

BACTERIOLOGY OF ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA IN SPAIN: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY BASED ON TYMPANOCENTESIS

1996 • 60 citations

Carriage of Penicillin-Resistant Pneumococci in a Military Population in Washington, DC: Risk Factors and Correlation with Clinical Isolates

1996 • 59 citations

Susceptibility of penicillin-resistant pneumococci to eighteen antimicrobials: implications for treatment of meningitis

1983 • 55 citations

In vitro susceptibilities of 185 penicillin-susceptible and -resistant pneumococci to WY-49605 (SUN/SY 5555), a new oral penem, compared with those to penicillin G, amoxicillin, amoxicillin-clavulanate, cefixime, cefaclor, cefpodoxime, cefuroxime, and cefdinir

1994 • 51 citations

Susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniae strains isolated in Italy to penicillin and ten other antibiotics

1995 • 48 citations

Emerging Resistance to Antimicrobial Agents in Gram-Positive Bacteria

1996 • 45 citations

STUDIES ON INDUCED RESISTANCE TO PENICILLIN IN A PNEUMOCOCCUS TYPE I*

1945 • 44 citations

Distribution of Streptococcus pneumoniae resistant to penicillin in the USA and in-vitro susceptibility to selected oral antibiotics

1995 • 44 citations

Comparative susceptibilities of penicillin-resistant pneumococci to co-trimoxazole, vancomycin, rifampicin and fourteen β-lactam antibiotics

1984 • 38 citations

An eight-year survey of the antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of 85,971 bacteria isolated from patients in a district general hospital and the local community

1993 • 33 citations

Surveillance of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes in Riyadh and their susceptibility to penicillin and other commonly prescribed antibiotics

1992 • 30 citations

Pneumococcal Pneumonia Including Diagnosis and Therapy of Infection Caused by Penicillin-Resistant Strains

1991 • 26 citations

False Susceptible Penicillin G MICs for Streptococcus pneumoniae with a Commercial Microdilution System

1986 • 23 citations

Susceptibilities of 200 penicillin-susceptible and -resistant pneumococci to piperacillin, piperacillin-tazobactam, ticarcillin, ticarcillin-clavulanate, ampicillin, ampicillin-sulbactam, ceftazidime, and ceftriaxone

1994 • 22 citations

New Prospects for Antibacterial Agents Against Multidrug-Resistant Pneumococci

1995 • 22 citations

The emergence of resistant pneumococcus as a pathogen in childhood upper respiratory tract infections.

1995 • 19 citations

Failure of Micro Media FOX Microdilution System to detect decreased susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniae to penicillin

1991 • 14 citations

Quantitative antimicrobial susceptibility test for Streptococcus pneumoniae using inoculum supplemented with whole defibrinated sheep blood

1987 • 14 citations

Pneumococcal resistance in southwest Virginia

1995 • 10 citations

Epidemiology and clinical spectrum of pneumococcal infections: an Israeli viewpoint

1995 • 8 citations

CEFIXIME THERAPY FOR OTITIS MEDIA

1993 • 3 citations

From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prevalence of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae--Connecticut, 1992-1993

1994 • 2 citations